CATHAROSE DE PETRI

CATHAROSE DE PETRI

Published on behalf of Lectorium Rosicrucianum

Translated from the Dutch

The Internationale School of the Golden Rosycross

Lectorium Rosicrucianum Headquarters

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ISBN 90 70196 76 X © 1981 by Rozekruis-Pers, Haarlem - The Netherlands

24TH DECEMBER 1930 - 24TH DECEMBER 1980

With this special edition containing seven addresses

given by Mrs. Catharose de Petri, we wish to com-

memorate that for fifty years the Grandmaster of the

Young Gnostic Brotherhood has worked unceasingly for

the Golden Rosycross.

This gives expression to our great gratitude for, and

recognition of the work rich in blessings that she has

fulfilled for the Spiritual School and its pupils, work

now extending into all parts of the world.

On the 24th of December of the year 1930 Mrs. Catha-

rose de Petri received her holy task from the Brother-

hood of the Golden Rosycross. During fifty years of

work the seed was sown in the hearts of all who were

looking for the path of the Golden Rosycross, the path

of universal christianity, and who were longing to walk

this path.

The work carried out together with Mr. Jan van

Rijckenborgh led to the spiritual transference of the

treasure of the Cathars, spoken of in the first three

addresses.

The subsequent four addresses bring the pupil face to

face with the path of liberation, with the task every child

of man will have to fulfil.

May Mrs. Catharose de Petri's fifty years of work result

in many walking this path to its glorious end.

Lectorium Rosicrucianum

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It is a great joy to us to testify from this Place-of-

Service that we have again taken up the Golden

Thread of Life running through the centuries; the

Golden Thread of Life linking us so strongly to the

gnostic past. The gnostic past as the binding factor

of our task in life in the present time — our task of

serving mankind — Mr. Van Rijckenborgh and the

undersigned saw luminous before our consciousness

even in our childhood.

Monsieur Gadal more than once said that the sub-

terranean vaults in the land of Sabarthez were known to

us in their entirety. And so they were! And at the time we

could therefore affirm his words unhesitatingly and for a

testimony. Even in our early childhood we wandered

very consciously in our ether-vehicles packed with

karmic experience through the caves, the mountains and

the valleys of the land of Sabarthez, near to the custodian

of the highest of all things. The personality-

consciousness scarcely put its power at the physical

vehicle's service, and so we were called the

misunderstood dreamers in those days. However, on

account of our predestination, and while still very

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young, we were placed before a task in life that had to be

done in the service of mankind in the present. And we

were fully conscious of this! With the consciousness of

the task entrusted to us in the year 1930 by the

Brotherhood of the Rosycross, and with full responsi-

bility for this, we have built up and led the sevenfold

Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross to its present

status.

As the extent of the Spiritual School's work-field

increased, its magnetic radiation-field following suit,

our longing for a human being living in this physical

world who would constitute a connecting link in-

creased also. Mr. Van Rijckenborgh and the under-

signed often talked this over together and we knew we

had to wait for the right psychological moment. We

both felt the want of a human being with a conscious-

ness similarly attuned and orientated towards the work

of the Universal Chain of the Brotherhood, in our

immediate vicinity. Yet we knew that this human

being was present in the physical world; a human

being who, like us, in the physical body looked with

yearning towards "the mountains where help would

come from"; a human being with a Gnosis-conscious-

ness similarly attuned to the one vibrant all-embracing

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divine soul-life that endows everyone looking for

deliverance from this nature's pain and death with Light

and Love and Life. We felt the want of concrete and

direct contact with a friend, who would also be our

Brother, older than us, and who would therefore be able

to talk to us out of a more mature experience of life

about the things of the ancient and present-day and

future Gnosis, which, in essence, is always one and the

same.

We longed to meet such a human being with ripeness-

of-soul one day, a human being in whom and through

whom impersonal love for the world and mankind

would radiate. We hoped to meet a human being great

and liberal in spirit and soul who would constitute a

safeguard for the work of the Young Gnostic

Brotherhood on account of his having recognized what

it was and on account of his great-souled knowledge

obtained by experience.

This human being did indeed appear upon our path

of life in the person of Monsieur A. Gadal from the

land of Sabarthez. The Golden Thread linking us with

the past, with the Universal Source, with the last link

in the Universal Chain of the Brotherhood brought us

together some twenty-one years ago. It is the Golden

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Thread of the past, the present and the future that

made our paths of life converge upon the ancient foci

of the Universal Chain of the Brotherhood. A conver-

gence which enabled the ancient Patriarch Monsieur

Gadal to link the Young Gnostic Brotherhood with the

Universal Chain, that is with the preceding

Brotherhood of the Middle Ages. Both these streams

of life surged with the self-same vibrations so that the

young ark could in this same rhythm and with

renewed vigour continue on its course towards the

field of the Spirit-soul. And to what far-reaching

effect would later become apparent!

Friends, undoubtedly many of you will remember that

on the 5th of May of the year 1957, at 10 o' clock in the

morning, in the presence of our Brother Monsieur A.

Gadal, our Grandmaster Mr. Van Rijckenborgh, and

many workers and pupils of the Spiritual School, two

stones on two sides of the cube of the monument were

unveiled and set in place. On that 5th of May of the year

1957 it had become amply clear to us that it was the

wish of the Great Ones that a visible sign be set up

among the imperishable testimonies of the preceding

Brotherhoods. At the time, on that 5th of May of the

year 1957, we not only placed

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a foundation stone, but we also established a simple

monument; a monument embodying a profound

meaning and a sublime value!

In view of the sale of the conference-building at

Ussat-les-Bains, the monument was moved some time

ago to some nearby land belonging to the Spiritual

School. For this reason a small group of pupils from

five different work-fields, from France, Germany,

Switzerland, Brazil and Holland had gathered to rede-

dicate the monument to its high purpose, and also to set

in place two memorial stones in the two sides of the

cube still open. The inscription engraved on these two

memorial stones is in the French language and is the

same as that on the two memorial stones set in place

earlier.

The profundity and the sublime value of this monu-

ment in the valley of the Ariège have actually grown

while it was being built. In the heart of this serene

valley the people seeing this monument will be con-

fronted with the Testimony of Truth. This testimony

gives visible proof of there not only having been an

ancient gnostic Brotherhood in the past, but also of

there being a very vital Young Gnostic Brotherhood in

the present. This monument is a symbol of the fact that

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the Triple Alliance of the Light: Grail, Cathar and

Cross-with-Roses, is not a meaningless label, but that

it is a testimony of imperishable truth. The Triple

Alliance of the Light has existed always, from the

initial beginning of things down to the present day,

and it will go on existing into the most distant future,

yes, into eternity.

Mr. Van Rijckenborgh asked the brothers who at

the time went to Ussat-les-Bains to prepare everything

there to build a sober monument in accordance with

the symbol known so well to all of you: Circle,

Square, and Triangle. What we had in mind was a

plateau in a circular form, a cube upon it, and a

sidereal stone upon the cube. At the time we asked our

workers to put our plan to Monsieur Gadal. He gave it

some tranquil thought, and the result was nothing less

than a miracle.

Monsieur Gadal felt urged to propose to us and to

allow us to place the altar-table of Bethlehem as a

crowning symbol upon the square, upon the cube. You

will know that formerly the leader of the Preceding

Brotherhood used to stand behind the altar-table when

fulfilling his holy service. Every parfait, every perfect

one cherished the holiest memories of the

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supreme moments of his sojourn in the Sanctuary of

Bethlehem. And this symbol, the original symbol, we,

as the Young Gnostic Brotherhood received from the

hands of Monsieur Gadal, the custodian of the caves of

Ussat-les-Bains. The Young Gnostic Brotherhood

proves by this monument in the valley of the Ariège

that it, in this our time, wishes to stand in actuality on

"the Square of Construction". For this we pupils are all

making our sacrifices, and, on this, just as tangibly, the

Universal Chain of the Predecessors has set its

blessings. On this basis the ancient Sanctuary of

Bethlehem was reinstated in this monument on the 5th

of May, 1957, past and present merging into absolute

"being".

In the monument, in the heart of the cube, past and

present merging into a unity and also into a universality,

there lie the charters, and:

1. a piece of lead from the roof of the castle of

Mont Ségur;

2. a stone from the burnt down roof of Bethle-

hem;

3. a second stone from the burnt down roof of

Bethlehem;

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4. a fragment of pottery from the workshops of the

Eglises;

5. a celestial stone found in the cemetery; 6and7.

two Lapis ex Coeli, that is: two celestial stones of a

very exceptional nature.

A simple celestial stone is an ordinary sidereal stone

or meteorite. The Lapis ex Coeli, however, is an

ophitic stone, a crystallization of powers. On the 5th

of May, 1957, the legendary treasure of the Gnosis

was thereby made available to the Young Gnostic

Brotherhood. All these attributes of the past were

placed in the repository of the monument by Monsieur

Gadal himself. In what light are we to view this

treasure of the Cathars? In a dual sense, that is,

materially and immaterially.

On Sunday-morning, the 1st of June, 1969, we

accordingly placed ourselves before the goal for which

we had come to Ussat-les-Bains, and gathered round the

monument at the heart of the initiation-centre in the

midst of the Pyrenees in southern France. We first

placed two memorial stones in the two sides of the cube

still open. And while doing so we said:

"In the name of the Universal Chain of the Brother-

hood, Jesus Christ,

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in the name of the Preceding Brotherhoods, the Cathar

and that of the Holy Grail,

in the name of the Grandmaster of the Young

Gnostic Brotherhood, Mr. J. van Rijckenborgh,

and in the unifying power of the Triple Alliance of the

Light: Grail - Cathar - Rosycross",

that our hopes centred on

first, the brothers and sisters gathered there, second,

everyone in whom the imperishable rose has

awakened,

third, all who are worthy to receive the ancient

treasure of the Cathars, having proved to be sufficiently

mature to do so, and experiencing inwardly the task of

disseminating around them the treasure of imperishable

worth as a great blessing.

This ceremonial having been completed, the mo-

ment had come to confirm in time again the monu-

ment as a whole, and we repeated the words once

spoken on the memorable Sunday-morning of the 5th

of May, 1957. Chapter 31, from Genesis, the verses 43

to 55 were then again read out, and will now be read

to you:

"Laban answered: My daughters and my grandsons,

your flocks and all that you see is mine. What can

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I do for my daughters and grandchildren? Come, let us

make a covenant, and let it be a witness between you

and me. So Jacob took a stone and when he had set it

up as a memorial pillar he said to his brothers: Gather

stones. And when they had brought some stones, they

made of them an elevated place and ate thereon. Laban

called it by a Chaldean name meaning "cairn of the

witness", and Jacob by a Hebrew name meaning "cairn

of the testimony", both according to the usage of his

language. And Laban said: This elevated place will be a

witness between you and me to-day. For this reason

this place was called Galaad, that is: "the cairn of the

witness". And he added: May the Lord see us and judge

when we shall have departed one from the other. And

he also said to Jacob: This elevated place and this stone

will bear witness if I come to you or if you should

intend to harm me in any way. And Jacob offered a

sacrifice on this mountain and invited his kinsmen to a

meal. And they had a meal and passed the night on the

mountain. Early next morning Laban kissed his sons

and daughters and blessed them, and Laban returned to

his home".

After a moment of serene silence and contemplation

by those present there it could be ascertained that the

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legendary treasure of the Gnosis has again been made

available to us in the Young Gnostic Brotherhood which

constitutes the last link in the Universal Chain of the

Brotherhood, Jesus Christ.

And now we are required to utilize this treasure! For

the Light of Bethlehem has freed the rocks from their

bases. The great Realm of Souls is now and forever

spreading its blessings over us and over mankind as a

present-day radiation from the universal Seven-Spirit.

Resulting in a fall, or in a resurrection. May it be a

resurrection for all of you!

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Various legends about the treasure of the Cathars have

existed throughout the centuries; and we know that the

persecutors of the Cathars conducted many inves-

tigations to get their hands on this treasure.

When Monsieur Gadal stayed in Holland in 1956, he

once told us about a spiritual experience he had in the

Cathedral at Ussat-les-Bains when he saw a number of

brothers and leaders of the Cathars going down the

walls of Mont Ségur in secret to take the treasure to safe

and secret places. They walked to the Ariège along the

"Path of the Cathars" to do so, and many people say the

treasure is to be found in one of the caves near the

valley of the Ariège. This conjecture has inspired some

individuals to continue looking for the treasure, but to

the present day without any success.

As we mentioned in our first address, you should

view the treasure of the Cathars in a dual way, that is:

as a material treasure and as an immaterial treasure.

We certainly do not pretend to know everything about

these things, but we would like to make an attempt to

let you first see the treasure of the Cathars in an

immaterial way. It will then be easy for us to deduce

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what the material treasure must be, even though we

may never have seen it. We can then determine what

our attitude as the Young Gnostic Brotherhood

should be to this knowledge, and what its consequen-

ces are for the pupils.

We may safely say that the immaterial treasure of the

Cathars is the same as that belonging to all genuine

Brotherhoods. For it consists of the immeasurable

riches coming to all who begin to participate in the

Universal Spirit-field. This is no mystical imagery,

friends; no, these words represent a dynamic reality!

More than once it has been explained to you in the

Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross that when a

human being walks the gnostic path of Initiation he

should first open his heart to the light-power of the

Gnosis. He should then take the inner cross, the Rosy-

cross on his shoulders and carry this cross from the

heart-sanctuary to the head-sanctuary, or, to put it dif-

ferently: from Bethlehem to Golgotha. This path of the

cross should be undertaken by the pupil to obtain

godliness. That is the treasure not to be contained in

earthen vessels. This path of the cross entails a "dying

to self" and therefore pain, because two power-streams

- one of nature, and the other of the Gnosis,

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thus not of nature - meet in one's own life-system. It is

therefore not sufficient for us merely to believe in the

Gnosis and the immortal Brotherhood; no, we have to

accept the process by:

being ignited in the Spirit of God;

passing away in Jesus;

and then, on this basis, being regenerated by the Holy

Spirit.

Then only, dear friends, will we obtain godliness, the

treasure!

You will understand that great love is needed to obtain

this godliness! On October 13th, 1956, Monsieur Gadal

wrote us in a letter:

"Montségur, the immense pyre of the gnostic priest-

hood; Montrealp de Sos, the stronghold of the Grail of

Wolfram von Eschenbach and Wagner, which retains

the drawing of this holy mystery in its crypt, where the

Brothers of the Grail received their initiation. In both

the valleys of the Ariège and the Sos, in the immense

spaces inside the Holy Mountain of Ussat there lived

the gnostic Brotherhoods so dear to us: the Rosi-

crucians, the Cathars and the Templars. How great was

the happiness of this ideal community! Quite

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naturally Occitania, that is southern France, so became a

realm of love.

God is Love! That was one of their favourite

sayings. And this realm of love led to the Universal

Brotherhood! The words: "Deep Peace, Brothers, God

is Love, the wondrous consolations of Bethlehem"

were the blessings often uttered by them. In the realm

of love there was of course no hostility, but

unfortunately its existence and activity did arouse

cruel hostility against itself. For how did it manifest

itself, this realm of love?

A Grandmaster assisted by a revered Archdeaco-

ness, that is a female Grandmaster, guided the whole

Brotherhood with their advice. For them the Word had

not been sealed into the Bible; nor had the Scriptures

been chained in the Temple; nor had God been locked

in the Tabernacle; nor did the High-Priest act as a

door-keeper to heaven and hell; nor were there any

slavery or death of the spirit. No, God twice saved the

world from its materialism and degeneration by the

immense revolt of the Gnosis; by the Mystics, the

Gnostics, the hermits of the deserts, the great sages of

the caverns. He made the Rosicrucians, the Cathars,

the Leonists, the spiritually great ones of Narbonne

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and Calabria revolt against reasonless faith and

reasonless dogma. The outlawed churches of John

and Paul, the Rosicrucians and the Templars, these

Brothers of the Universal Brotherhood were the ones

who with the Cathars established the Temple of the

Spirit".

It is in this way, and no other, friends, that we may

obtain godliness, the treasure!

But what is the treasure? All of you know, in theory:

The new soul is born within the heavenly heart; and

from the heavenly heart the soul at a given moment

looks into the open space behind the frontal bone in the

forehead. The soul sees, it is confronted with the light

and the radiation-power of the Gnosis, and it at once

possesses the imperishable treasure; the treasure is given

into the soul's possession.

The spirit projecting itself into the soul is part of the

universal Spirit-field. The universal Spirit-field mani-

fests itself in seven streams, in seven streams of the ab-

solute. We speak about the Seven-Spirit. Whoever

begins to participate in this, or already does so, like the

reborn soul does, at once participates in all that the

Seven-Spirit is, or intends; he possesses the immaterial

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treasure, the most sublime, the most glorious treasure

any reborn human being can receive!

In the spirit there is absolute Life,

absolute Love,

absolute Intelligence,

absolute Harmony,

absolute Wisdom, absolute

Devotion, absolute

liberating Action.

Try not to see these seven aspects in their diversity;

see them in their unity, for they determine each other.

You may know people who have made or are making a

success of their lives; people endowed with a loving

nature, others endowed with intelligence, others again in

whose behaviour the art of living, a certain harmony, is

apparent. Undoubtedly you will know wise and

principled people, people dedicated and industrious. But

whoever participates in the universal Seven-Spirit

receives the sevenfold treasure of which the one aspect is

determined by the six others; which means that the seven

rays of the Logos working together manifest eternity in

time within the liberated human being. Then, for the

spirit-soul-man, there are no more limits to knowing and

doing. In principle, all limits, all

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impediments, all restrictions have altogether faded

away. And at once the relationship of God's child with

his Father develops. That is to say, friends, at once a

process having a universal nature develops, a process

of growth which cannot in principle be stopped any

more, consequently: unremitting life and endeavour

and work arising out of the imperishable treasure.

That is the immaterial aspect of the Cathars' trea-

sure, which is and was the treasure of all initiates. All

God's children are therefore equal, and all possess the

same treasure. They are therefore one, and they can be

one for nothing divides them. Consequently, they have

the greatest respect for each other, although not all

living at the same level of spiritual growth, for there

are older and younger brothers and sisters. The older

ones have advanced further in the process of sanctifi-

cation, and the younger know this, see this, and ex-

perience this. The older one immediately recognizes

the younger; and there is immeasurable joy in his heart

when a new brother or sister participates in the treasure

which is eternal and boundless. The older one has no

feelings of superiority or suchlike towards the younger,

for in the universal Spirit there is no such thing as

superior or inferior. Among the spirit-soul-

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born a holy Sancta Democratio, true Freedom, Equality

and Brotherhood reign. Whatever one of them

possesses, all will possess; whatever one of them ac-

complishes, all will accomplish; whatever one of them

does, all will do.

If, having thought it over, you understand all this, you

can easily deduce what the material treasure of the

Cathars must consist of, yes, what it actually does con-

sist of. You may now also understand that if this treasure

were never to be found, this could never mean the death

of the nations, because the immaterial treasure can

always be converted into the material treasure when

observing the appropriate spiritual laws.

Nothing can ever be lost even though it cannot be

found. Nothing can be destroyed even though it has

been pulverized. Time alone can be wasted if, for in-

stance, spiritual work being done in the nature-of-

death is obstructed and rendered impossible, or if

immaterial wisdom converted into matter is mutilated

in science and in practice. Time alone is what can be

gained by the nature-of-death. But a thousand years

are like a single day to God! And so, friends, the trea-

sure is imperishable and safe, and victory is certain!

As a confirmation of this we would like to conclude

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with a few words Monsieur Gadal said to the pupils of

our Spiritual School in the month of May of the year

1957:

"In the beginning was the Word ... and the Light

shines in the darkness. There you have the blazing star,

the luminous star, the Pentacle of Bethlehem which

reveals the immaterial to the material, the consola-

mentum of the parfaits. The persecuted, the outlawed

have never relinquished this motto, their motto. It

should therefore be recognized that the divine Light

shines more strongly than ever right through all the

darkness of history and manifests truth fully".

With this breath-taking reality in our minds, we

conclude this address with: Glory to the Word of the

Holy Spirit-Fire!

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After our consideration of the immaterial treasure of

the Cathars we would now like to contemplate the

material treasure partly hidden in the secret hiding-

places of the preceding Brotherhood, protected there,

and coming into the light of day at the appropriate

time for certain purposes.

Let us then imagine how a young gnostic Brother-

hood develops, a Brotherhood having the task of

bringing the message of salvation to seeking mankind

in the nature-of-death, and of gathering the harvest and

bringing it home from the fields. Take the Brotherhood

of the Cathars as an example. At the beginning of its

work this Brotherhood was led by a few of the

liberated in soul and spirit. They had access to the

universal Spirit-field, hence to the absolute of the

Seven-Spirit. God's seven rays working together within

them, they from within possessed first-hand

knowledge, first-hand power in terms of the Gnosis.

Filled with the Holy Spirit, they fulfilled their work in

and through the Holy Spirit.

What work? The work of sowing and harvesting.

Sowing the Universal Teachings, magically con-

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firming the seed in soil most unnatural for it. And

encouraging the seed to grow so that there would be a

harvest and, subsequently, bringing it home.

How was and is this work done? According to a uni-

versal guideline? The same one immutably throughout

the ages? No, like the leaders of all gnostic Brother-

hoods, the leaders of the Cathars had to reckon with

time, place and circumstances. The world is subject to

ceaseless change, and the workers in God's vineyard

have to reckon with this. The servants have to do their

work according to the insight they have acquired, and

with complete individual responsibility. While fol-

lowing the guidelines of the one universal law and

imparting the universal message of salvation, this

message has to be forever new, topical, dynamic, libe-

rating and practicable for the times in which it is being

manifested. For every old message in the world-of-

death has been damaged, spoilt by mutilation, and has

consequently become impracticable or impossible.

Because of this the Cathar leaders in their times once

again had to free the teachings, the method and its

application by means of first-hand knowledge derived

from the universal Spirit-field. There was no exception

to this. And in this way their whole work was

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closely attuned to the radiation conditions of the uni-

versal Seven-Spirit current at the time. In this way their

work was new and bore fruit.

The leaders of the Cathars certainly had no old

books and manuscripts available from which they

only had to copy the knowledge, wisdom and method

in their talks and in their lives. No, they had the task

to free for themselves the knowledge, wisdom and

method from the Universal Teachings by means of

the Spirit-soul. And this is true for everyone; for us

too, friends. We ourselves have to free godliness. In

this way they wrote their manuscripts, they

formulated their method, they made their rituals, they

utilized their magic.

And we who may compare their work objectively

with other gnostic manifestations in other times, we

say: It is unmistakably hermetic! In all these manifes-

tations we hear the voices of the one truth, as alike as

drops of water. Yet in their practical realization we

will find subtle distinctions,.and often great differen-

ces in manifestation. Think, for instance, of the fact

that many of the ancient Brotherhoods could reach the

masses only in symbolical language; while the Young

Gnostic Brotherhood, our Spiritual School addresses

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its pupils with the greatest possible clarity, in language

they can immediately understand. Hence, indeed the

same universal message, but by means of a different

method.

And so we may safely say: when the leaders of the

Cathars made and utilized their rites and their formu-

laries, their sacraments and their magic, this was based

on first-hand knowledge converted for utilization in the

nature-of-death and entirely adapted to the radiations and

laws prevailing at the time. Hence: immaterial treasures

converted into material treasures, into substance, into

independence.

It may now be clear to you that these spiritual trea-

sures converted into matter in this way become power-

less, yes, even harmful in the hands of unauthorized

persons. Because of this the material treasure of the

Cathars needs to be protected, needs to be kept hidden,

for if it were to fall into the hands of unauthorized

persons anything could happen to it. History abounds

with evidence of what then happens to it.

The Brothers of the Holy Grail have always pointed

out the one Path and the one method; they made no

secret of them. But they were not believed; their ad-

versaries always thought they kept a great deal hidden.

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Because it is in this material world that material man

wants to gain the victory, and so he keeps on looking

for the lost link - which does not exist, at least not for

him!

We have established that the immaterial treasure of

each successive Brotherhood can only be quarried from

the universal Spirit-field itself, by means of direct

gnostic knowledge. As long as the treasure quarried

from the eternal fount of all things remains confined to

the group of those having access to this fount there is no

danger at all. But danger looms the moment this treasure

is converted into a material treasure to serve the work of

the harvest, all gnostic work then incurring unintended

damage. Usually this damage occurs because of pupils

and workers devoted to the Gnosis simply through

ignorant enthusiasm, through misconceptions about

task, purpose and value, and especially through an

inadequate knowledge of magic. Damage may also be

incurred through the impertinence of workers who with

otherwise good intentions follow their personal

inclinations.

Please understand: we do not in any way accuse

anyone, we merely want to establish, and look for a

solution. For the rest, we will proceed to the order of

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the new day, a day when we will all know what attitude a

pupil of the Gnosis is to adopt, a day according to the

requirements of which we will from now on all be

judged.

To the material treasure belong:

a. the teachings;

b. the method;

c. the means,

as you will know, friends. The teachings are always the

same in the Gnosis. Method, means and emphasis differ

in various ways. Let us consider the three aspects

mentioned.

First, the teachings consist of an element that is

manifested; second, they consist of an element mani-

fested to a few; and, third, an element not manifested,

ready for some possible day in the future. The literature

of our Spiritual School belongs to the manifested

element. The preceding Brotherhood did not have this

aspect to cope with; there were only manuscripts, oral

teachings and symbols.

It may be supposed that all of you possess books of

the Spiritual School, books outsiders can also buy.

This fact by itself creates danger for the School and

possible resistance; because the Spiritual School's

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enemies use our literature to build up their organized

opposition. We know that small groups 'employ it

whenever it suits them. The Spiritual School's leadership

knows this, but accepts the risk and danger, since it has

to reach the seeking public through present-day publicity

media. The Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross

has to do so in our turbulent times because time is

accelerating and the constellations of the race are subject

to ceaseless change. The Spiritual School of the

Rosycross has to make the most of its time and,

therefore, it has to act quickly!

But, friends, you can all help to minimize as much as

possible the dangers connected with this, and so protect

the treasure of imperishable value. Therefore, talk about

the manifested teachings only when people ask you

about them, and only when you know for certain that the

question arose from a seeking interest. Why? Well,

when I invite you to come and listen to me while I do

not know you, and you come in hostility or in

mediumship, which is the same, the Spiritual School

suffers damage through me.

You will know that the Spiritual School outwardly

possesses five aspects; and a fivefold teaching likewise

radiates into those aspects. Because of their non-dia-

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lectical nature these fivefold teachings are, in reality,

always secret teachings. Because you cannot really go

to the world with them. There by virtue of their nature,

they will always encounter hostility. If you realize this,

it should be an adequate reason for you to guard in your

heart everything you hear in this Temple. And this is

even more true of the teachings given in the third work-

field of the School, the School of Higher

Consciousness, and in the fourth work-field, the

Ecclesia.

But, unfortunately, dear friends, in matters of secrecy

the Spiritual School, through its pupils, still makes a

poor showing. We are not referring to secrecy due to

some possible conspiracy, or due to astounding

miracles or experiments; no, the secrecy meant here is

due to "not wanting to do any harm", either to the

Spiritual School, or to others, or to oneself. Because

gnostic teachings adapted to the I and dragged down to

the level of the I always do harm! The Spiritual School

and its leadership therefore have to keep a close watch

to minimize the danger. You will understand that any

check on what happens generally to teachings and

speeches requires great watchfulness. And if the truth

be told, our requests in past years have

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often been disregarded because of incomprehension of

what was really meant.

And the cause, friends? An elementary deficiency in

a positive link with the universal Seven-Spirit so that

the element of love, the element of intelligence, and the

element of wisdom developed insufficiently. Out of

love for all of you, out of love for mankind, out of love

for its vocation and for the whole Universal Chain of

the Brotherhood the Spiritual School therefore has to

impose restrictions! The gnostic teachings being radia-

ted into the Spiritual School's highest aspect present no

dangers because there they exist in their immaterial

aspect, and can therefore only be approached by the

Spirit-soul.

We told you earlier that to the Spiritual School's

material treasure belong: the method and the means.

The method relates to the way the work-of-service

in all its diversity is done. To the means belong, for

instance: our Temples, our consecrated work-places

and, last but not least, our rituals.

The organization of the Spiritual School, its acti-

vities generally, the furnishings and utilization of the

Temples, they have to respond closely to the material

reflection of the immaterial reality. The work being

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done has to be ceaselessly checked against this

requirement, and corrected whenever any error is found.

You will understand this completely when you think it

over.

We would now ask: what is a ritual? In ordinary

religious life it is no more than a mystical setting,

opening and closing words, more or less. For the

pupils who have come to our School from catholic or

similar groups, the ritual is actually an inward

hindrance. Such pupils are glad they have been freed

from them, because they have found that a ceaselessly

repeated ritual took and kept them prisoners. Be this

as it may, within the scope of our contemplation we

have to tell you that the teachings and the rituals go

together, they are a unity, and are inseparable, because

the ritual is the magical means of confirming the

teachings in man and in the world; pre-eminently the

magical means because the ritual neutralizes every

kind of I-centred ness.

Why does one feel imprisoned and oppressed by

church rites? Because they are old ! Because they derive

from older, earlier radiation situations! The rituals which

the Young Gnostic Brotherhood uses, the rites including

the invocations, the prayers, the mantrams

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and the explanatory introductory words of the Uni-

versal Teachings — let it now be said to you, friends

— are direct materializations out of the immaterial

treasure of the Young Gnostic Brotherhood; therefore

derived from the link with the universal Seven-Spirit.

As such they are therefore holy and inviolable.

Any trifling, altering, negating, or copying, as well

as lack of respect, cannot be permitted. For this con-

cerns an extremely important moment in the Spiritual

School's development. Dear friends, do understand, this

concerns nothing less than the magic of the Spiritual

School, nothing less than the means of confirming the

teachings in time! It has happened repeatedly that

rituals entrusted to workers in good faith were wilfully

altered, or even ignored. You do understand that this

cannot be tolerated! This is the influence of the

classical adversary who tries to distort the Spiritual

School's magic by emasculating it! And that amounts to

an attack on the imperishable treasure of the Young

Gnostic Brotherhood. Therefore, brothers and sisters:

Let all be truly conscious now!

In all our lives, Gnosis' Voice

is calling loudly:

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Know that the time has come!

You who for years and years

have been made ready for the present,

come, pupils, and confess

the Rosycross!

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Now that we, as people approaching the Gnosis and

especially as people linked in group-unity, have

entered the long-expected hour, and we as members of

the Inner School are united in the Renova-focus for a

few days in order to link ourselves with the invisible

light of the Logos, we should be deeply aware of the

great and very far-reaching importance of this. The

prayer which emanates to all the great ones of the pre-

ceding Brotherhoods is: that the necessary under-

standing may enter all your hearts and find a fully pre-

pared soil in your souls.

We are assembled in this conference with a manifold

aim. Doubtless many of you, if not most of you, will

have prepared for it, for now the essential aim of our

meeting here must become reality. The aim which can

be realized if we are attuned to it in the right way. The

aim which can only be understood and inwardly

experienced in the form of the Holy Grail. The great

positive link, the conscious link of the members of the

Young Gnostic Brotherhood with the last preceding

link of the Universal Chain of the Brotherhood, that is

the Brotherhood which calls itself after the Rosycross,

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the Brotherhood which calls itself after the Brother-

hood of the Cathars and the Brotherhood of the

Temple-builders, the Holy Grail. During these days

this sacred threefold Brotherhood, linked with the

members of the Inner School, must be brought to

complete clarity, in our hearts as well as in our beings,

and in our souls.

We speak of a triple alliance, and of a threefold

touch, for without such a threefold touch the Holy

Grail cannot be realized within you, as an inner

possession. For the Holy Grail can only come to reali-

zation in those people who, in pureness of heart and

professing it fully and positively, approach it with

sanctified knowledge. If we speak of a positive link,

there must also be a negative link; consisting of the

orientations acknowledged by all of us, the disposi-

tions experienced by all of us, to which we have tried

to react through the years, and which have finally led

us to the Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross.

Now, in this sacred and joyful hour, we must all be

aware that the positive fire must flame up on the pre-

viously established basis, and this great mercy you are to

ignite for yourself and, in group-unity, for each other.

You are in this Temple at this moment to enable

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you to do this. The entire Chain of the Light wishes to

baptize you as Sons in these days!

It is quite possible that the Universal Chain of the

Light is too abstract, too vague an idea for you as yet.

This difficulty, if present, has been taken into account.

It is the reason why you have come here to make con-

crete what is as yet so very abstract. We are assembled

here during these days to experience within ourselves

the radiation of great and pure gnostic light-power. The

opportunity exists to make the gnostic stream of fire

gain power over us while we are fulfilling our task.

Thus we will be prepared for a greater task; the task of

making the magnetic light-field radiate more intensi-

vely, and then, via this light-field, realizing a work in

this world, so that a new harvest for the Kingdom of

God can be reaped.

As you see friends, we are assembled during this

conference for very magical purposes. We are together in

group-unity in the temple-upper-room celebrating the

expectation of our Pente Koste, the feast of the five-

pointed Star of Bethlehem. Together we want to

investigate if the magical conditions for the fulfilment of

our purposes are really present at this moment. You will

understand that magical conditions can only lead

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to success when they are accepted by the whole group.

Therefore the Holy Scriptures speak emphatically

about being together in "unity". May we express the

hope that you are all willing to let the magical

conditions work in you fully, that you will profess the

magical conditions with us, and that you will confirm

your full dedication to this.

The Young Gnostic Brotherhood has received the

blessing of the Universal Chain of the Brotherhood

even years ago. It has now become necessary, how-

ever, especially in the present phase of development

of the sacred work, that all of you are also taken up in

the magical work of construction of the Spiritual

School and that you experience this blessing

consciously. You have already been taken up on the

basis of your professing, your accepting, so that the

Spiritual School in the thus ignited fire may be

assured of the continuation of what has already been

manifested and realized. However, from your

professing and accepting follows that in the first place

the robe of renewal must be woven; after which the

soul-vesture can be made. It is only from and through

the Holy Spirit that this greatest of endeavours in our

lives can be truly accomplished.

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The Holy Spirit, the third aspect of the Universal

Gnosis, will not come to us as a gift from heaven at a

certain moment. No, it must be won by the pupil him-

self. The pupil himself must build a Holy-Spirit-field.

When such a Holy-Spirit-field has been prepared it

establishes a link with the invisible Light of the Logos.

And out of this link the visible Light, the Son of the

Soul, will be manifested. To realize such a Holy-Spirit-

field, as an Ark of Noah, in dialectics, we need a

certain kind of help. The pupil cannot possibly bring

this about with his own strength. In God's plan with

mankind nothing ever happens one second late or one

second early.

And see how during the phase in the development of

mankind in which, by the sanctifying influences of the

Gnosis-powers, a number of microcosms are prepared to

go the path of the endura to transfiguration and light-

birth, spiritual leaders manifest themselves and work

among them. These spiritual leaders, messengers of a

preceding Brotherhood, are predestined to this task from

their birth. This will become very clear to you if you

read the Gospel of the Pistis Sophia, in which such a

process of predestination, or divine preordination, is

described in detail: how the preceding

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Brotherhoods through their hierophants poured the

seed of predestination into the wombs of the mothers

of the disciples. And as the Gnosis never forsakes the

works of its hands, it is clear why and how the Gnosis

has been manifested in our time, and how in our day

also a holy magnetic Spirit-field has come into exis-

tence, with which the Divine Father of the All has

linked Himself.

All this cannot be explained from the I or from the

nature-of-death, but from the Gnosis which realizes

everything through its Love. Thus, on this basis, the

fivefold Living Body has been born out of the Holy

Spirit of the Arch-Gnosis. Through the holy method it

has made concrete and thus realized the soul-vesture.

From that moment the inner community of the

Spiritual School, which is encompassed by this soul-

vesture, has the right to call itself after the holy names

of the Gnosis. From that moment also the Young

Gnostic Brotherhood has become a tangible reality.

That is to say, from that moment the Young Gnostic

Brotherhood was ennobled and justified in populating

her fifth work-field, the top of the fivefold vesture, and

in leading its members into the promised land. Thus

the members of the fifth work-field receive

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every opportunity to set out and persevere consciously

on the journey of the fulfilment, by way of the sixth

work-field, the new astral field, to the seventh work-

field, the field of the resurrection of the immortal

souls.

However, before this happens, that which has been

born and offered to the Universal Gnosis and that

which asks to be admitted must pass a final test, must

undergo a trial. From this examination it must become

apparent whether the soul-vesture has come into

existence gradually and in harmony, and therefore, in

the right manner; that is, whether the five-pointed star

has the correct position as far as its magnetic poles are

concerned. This is a test that can never fail; that can

never be wrong in its final conclusion. For the true

state of being of a microcosm can be concluded with-

out fail from the position of the magnetic poles of the

soul-vesture belonging to it. These magnetic poles al-

ways speak the truth. The position of the magnetic

poles is inescapably connected with and is always di-

rected towards the aim which this person is really

pursuing. The Universal Teachings have always stated

and therefore known this fact.

Every person has a certain orientation, a certain

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aim. Therefore the position of his magnetic poles

points in the direction of the aim pursued. Everyone

who pursues something, weaves as a result his etheric

vesture around his personality. Everyone follows a

certain road, a certain method; and the result is a

certain state of the soul. My personality as well as

yours are weaving a five-pointed soul-vesture. The

magnetic poles in my life-field, and in your life-field

will prove whether my or your soul is a soul of death

or a soul of life. You will understand that also

regarding the magnetic body of the Spiritual School it

had to become clearly apparent whether the five-

pointed star was with its apex directed towards the

Gnosis, as it professes to do to this very hour, or

whether it stood upside down, with its apex downwards

and its feet in the air. Had this been so, it would have

proved that the aim was not the Gnosis, but matter, an

aim which is of the earth-earthly: the acquisition of

earthly powers, fame and possessions.

Because every soul radiates light, and projects its

form, its being, on to its surroundings, it is clear that

also our Spiritual School's body, outwardly mani-

fested fivefold, at a certain moment thus clearly pro-

jected itself on to the screen of revelation.

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You will understand, friends, that you, as partici-

pants in the Inner School and therefore as living

members of the magnetic radiation-field of the Spiri-

tual School, have to bring your priestly task, or your

possibly future priestly task to an inner clarity, to a

reality, yes, to a glorious fire, as never before.

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Every preceding Brotherhood had a guardian, a pro-

tector, a Patriarch, someone sent back to the earth

voluntarily. Through Monsieur Gadal we are standing

on classical ground, united with the breath of the

preceding Brotherhood and more especially with the

great ineffaceable blood-sacrifice of thousands of

people. The protector, the guardian, the Patriarch was

someone who had been sent back of his own free will,

one who so loved the great thrice-holy work for

humanity that, solitary, he wished to enter the regions

of estrangement. But you know: he who is solitary in

this way, is united with the Gnosis! And therefore we

thank the light for its wondrous mercy that we too

have been allowed to greet the Patriarch of the

Preceding Brotherhood in our brother and friend, Mr.

Gadal. Thankful are we for the great privilege to have

learned to know and love this indefatigable investiga-

tor and protector of the sanctuaries.

Monsieur Gadal, during his lifetime, was a living

representative of the focal points in the land of

Sabartez. Many of you have known him. Through him

you are united with the living testimony of history;

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with the breath of the preceding Brotherhoods. Many of

you have heard his words; some of you very directly

and personally. You were able to undergo the force of

the preceding Brotherhood without straining the limits

of your strength. Are you now, at this moment, still

positively conscious of the great unity which you, as a

group of priests, have forged with him? The history

with which Mr. Gadal has linked you has thus been a

means to an end.

To which end? Dear friends: to your priestly state of

being! Therefore you will understand now that you, as

participants in the Inner School of the Golden Rosy-

cross, will have to make your alliance with the Young

Gnostic Brotherhood into an absolute clarity, a reality,

a glorious fire. For on this "clarity" is founded the

great positive conscious unity between you and the last

preceding link of the Holy Brotherhood. This

conscious positive unity will have to be honoured and

maintained firmly and strongly.

Until recently there was, with regard to most of you,

only a negative link; a negative link which showed

itself for instance in various attitudes and dispositions

which have brought you in contact with the Spiritual

School in the past years. As we have stated before, we

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would now like to deal with the nature, with the origin of

this negative link in order to distil from it various

imperative consequences.

Firstly we ask you: why was and is the urge towards

the Spiritual School and the Gnosis unmistakably

present in you? Many of you entered the School many

years ago, for others it is only a few years ago. You are

all being driven in the direction of the Spiritual School

as by an inner urge. Why friends? Why was this urge

present in you? Why did you turn to the Rosycross, to

the Holy Grail, to the Cathars? Perhaps you will

answer: "0, I don't know, my parents have guided me

to this path and so it will possibly be a matter of blood-

impulses." Or you could say: "I was interested." Or

you say: "After many experiences in my life, I have

experienced the Spiritual School to be my true home."

It could also be that you answer spontaneously: "The

Gnosis touched me and called me." And many more

answers could be given to this question, but actually

they say nothing, they do not explain anything

essential. They are just statements.

Still we, as members of the Inner Degrees of the

Spiritual School will have to know clearly and abso-

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lutely what cause has led our path of life to the School.

Only sober, unadorned reality can help us.

You know, friends, that your microcosm, called to

eternal existence, has already covered a path of life,

consisting of eons of time. Our microcosm has already

accomodated many personalities. And each personality

has left its memorial records in the aural being. All the

experience of these many personalities in our

microcosm is recorded in the aural being ... And the

sum of this charge manifests itself in every new micro-

cosmic inhabitant as a magnetic force-flow. Therefore,

brothers and sisters, also in everyone of us! When we

know this, what can we deduce from this? That a

magnetic, blood-pervading karmic force works within-

us, spontaneously, involuntarily. And it is this karmic

force, taking hold of us which has led us to the Young

Gnosis. What can we deduce from this? That, at the

least, the last personality in our microcosm has been

confronted with the threefold Gnosis, and, in some way

or other, has reacted to this touch.

The magnetic urge which emanates from our aural

being is a very honest force. This force-flow, this

charge in the aural being, flows from the aural being

into us as soon as there is a nature-born being in the

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microcosm. Therefore it is not an accomplishment of

ours; we cannot say: "I have" or: "my personality has

sought the Gnosis". No friends! This aural force, this

blind fate, is therefore sometimes represented as a

blindfolded woman. This magnetic urge works auto-

matically, as a blind fate as it were. Thus we have been

led to the Gnosis by the karmic urge of our aural being.

When you approached the Spiritual School and later

when you joined the Spiritual School you had to fight a

hard fight. All this is the outcome of the normal

dialectic conflict between the ordinary urge of nature

and the karmic urge that works within you. To this day

this karmic urge leads you into difficulties many times,

sometimes even daily. This karmic urge brings you in

situations which are not in harmony with natural

conventional circumstances. For although your karmic

urge drives you in the direction of the Gnosis, still you

cannot say that you, for this reason, received the

Gnosis. It is as yet a dark impulse in you, originating in

the aural being. The characteristics of your cosmic

being have led you to the Spiritual School.

You may possibly think or even speak later: "As

members of the Inner Degrees we know all these things,

don't we? So many times in past years have we

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heard about these things!" Indeed, friends, but a called

priestly host which has given an affirmative answer to the

call, a group which has entered a state of greater

consciousness, namely the members of the third work-

field, this group must have the courage to face the reality

of the moment time and again.

And -now, accepting this reality, we have to pene-

trate more deeply behind the veils of the truth. And we

ask you: when the personality which preceded you in

your microcosm has had gnostic experience and has

seen the path of liberation, how is it possible then that

you do not have conscious knowledge of all these

things? When the gnostic path can lead you away from

dialectics, from the nature-of-death in one lifetime;

when in one lifetime the rebirth of the Spirit-soul can

be realized within you, why then are you not fully

conscious of the special place you have taken here in

this Temple, assuming that the predecessor in your

microcosm has known the one universal truth and has

inwardly experienced it? The answer is clear: the

predecessors in your microcosm have indeed seen the

path, they have known the path, and they have tasted a

great deal of the path. Yes, they have even experienced

the Holy Grail from very close by, but, for whatever

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reason, they have renounced the great possibilities

given them! The predecessors in your microcosm have

beheld "It" from very close by, lived Tao from very

close by, have tasted the great breath intimately, so that

the aural being has received the undeniable and

ineffaceable marks of this. Even to such an extent that

it now shows itself to you and in you as a magnetic

urge. Therefore we sometimes hear a worker or a pupil

say when a certain subject is repeated in an address: "0

yes, we have heard this already in a conference twenty

years ago." We would like to respond to this by saying

that you have been confronted with the same universal

truth not only twenty years ago, but that you have

brought this same unadulterated doctrine of truth with

you at your birth! And now the Chain of the

Brotherhood only waits to see if you want to manifest

in this earth-life the doctrine of truth so well known to

you, manifest it in and through yourself in the service

of your fellowmen. If so, the flame of your conscious-

ness will bear witness of it to the Brotherhood.

All this has to be said to you as members of the Inner

Degrees, for the situation sketched here is not one you

can be proud of! The predecessors in your microcosm

lived in a time about four hundred to eight hundred

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years ago. That is in the time of the historic Brother-

hood. The predecessors in our dwelling-of-life lived

for instance close to the old Cathars. They lived in

the regions of the land of Sabartez, in the land of the

Bonshommes. However, they lived also in the Low

Countries so well known to you and in the German

and Swiss regions, where the Brotherhoods of the

Holy Grail and the Brotherhood of the classical

Rosycross have left their traces as an ineffaceable

legacy. Many of these predecessors, out of whose

magnetic breath we now live, and are, have betrayed

or repudiated these old Brotherhoods in many ways.

They have known and tasted the Gnosis from very

close by, but they were the ones against whom the

Sermon on the Mount bears witness: the ones who

had been touched and wanted to serve both God and

mammon; the ones who had been touched and who,

when the oppressors came, were filled with fear and

apprehension; the ones who had been touched and

who fled and forsook their brothers and sisters who

remained steadfast. The ones who had been touched

and who, when it counted, repudiated the light; the

ones who had been touched and who even, in a few

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cases, raised their hands against their brothers in the

hour of danger.

Face this inexorable truth! Seen from a microcosmic

standpoint, it was us that nailed our Lord to the cross,

in the persons of the brothers and sisters whom we

betrayed and forsook and repudiated. And therefore,

friends, their blood, their guiltless martyrs' blood has

been scorched into us like a fire, like a magnetic hellish

fire. For one who has been touched will never lose the

blood-sign of such a debt. One who has been touched

will never be free from this blood-sign! Such touched

ones are here in this Temple now; such touched ones

were also present in the pit which Johann Valentin

Andreae described to us in "The alchemical wedding of

Christian Rosycross" Do you now realize who you are?

You need not be dismayed, for all of you are, as we

may hope, once again in the process of ascending in

this stage of life. It is true, however, that till recently

many of you have been at the bottom of the pit of the

touched ones. The pit where the fires of hell burn.

Indeed not a situation to be proud of! He who sees the

light, he who is struck by the light and does not come,

is marked by the light, is marked by the fire of Hermes

with the mark of guilt.

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You will understand, friends, that you cannot dwell

in the sunlight of the Logos without any reaction,

without receiving a certain mark. He who has once seen

the light and experienced the force of God in it; he who

has once entrusted himself to the light, is marked by

this light, and he has no peace anymore. He has no

peace before and until help comes.

Was your life in the years behind you not marked by

this restlessness? Have you resisted it in all possible

ways? Have you searched for a way out? Wasn't that

your writhing on the bottom of the pit-of-death? Such a

man has no peace — until help comes. Help from

whom? Help from those who were once betrayed.

burned and tortured for the sake of the Holy Grail!

From those brothers and sisters will your help come!

Your mark, your reaction of guilt, your connection

with this guilt is the connection with the inheritance of

the Holy Grail. This inheritance will never relinquish

its hold on you!

The predecessors in your microcosm have removed

the veil; the ray of fire has entered and from that

moment your microcosm has been united with the

inheritance of the Holy Grail. And you, you will never

be able to free yourself from it, because you are

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marked. Two ways only are open to you: either you

remain writhing in the pit-of-death bearing the fiery

mark of your guilt, keeping the fire-within-you, the

hellfire-within-you emphatically burning, or you

follow the directions of the divine bequeathers and

carry out their last will and testament.

The brothers and sisters of the Holy Grail come to

you to enable you to carry out this last will and testa-

ment of the spiritually great ones, the soul-liberated

ones. And thus the bloody Grail-mark of guilt can be

transformed by you and in you into the Holy Grail of

the most complete liberation. Our microcosm fell into

the deepest depths through the flame of hate and the

consuming fire of extreme fear, but through the heat of

the fire of imperishable love, the Gnosis always comes

to the marked ones through the intermediary of its

predestined ones to pull them up with the cords of

love.

He who understands this becomes very modest and

very quiet. So quiet within himself that the love of God

can make itself heard and felt. And his answer will be:

"By myself I am nothing, o Gnosis; have mercy upon

me, a sinner!" And along the radiant cord, as over a

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bridge, the tried one will be led into the Land of the

Living, into the land of the Holy Grail.

Brothers and sisters, these words of unmasking and

declaration were spoken to you because the appointed

hour has come for you all, without exception. The

cords of love of the past have become the present. And

here, at this moment, these cords of love are being

lowered into this Temple for the use of everyone. And

they who were betrayed and repudiated, they, the

spiritually great ones, they greet you with the words of

eternal love:

Come well-beloved, approach now

The waiting Wedding-hall sublime.

The Father's loving hands

are beckoning you!

Come, it is time!

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Every pupil of the Spiritual School, and especially the

pupil of the Inner School, will have to begin from the

clear understanding of the negative link about which we

have been speaking, if there is ever to be any question of

a positive, conscious reaction to what the Spiritual

School calls the Gnosis.

As we know, a magnetic driving force exists within

every pupil which, from the aural being, urges him for-

ward and keeps him restless in the pit-of-death. This

magnetic driving force rises up via the sacral plexus in

the serpent-fire column, then fills the upper-room, and

from the upper-room it fills our whole being. In this

way the pupil is taken up, as it were, into a burning fire,

into a fiery oven. It is a fire that does not consume the

being, but keeps man alive in a continuous, fierce

seeking. This is a process that can occupy man from

birth, and undoubtedly we have all been seized by it.

Now we know that this burning fire of disquiet is

caused by magnetic tensions which have developed as

a result of the gnostic touch, and as a result of a nega-

tive reaction to this gnostic touch, particularly on the

part of the previous inhabitants of our microcosm.

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Accordingly, a magnetic tension comes into being

within man which can be indicated as guilt. In fact, this

magnetic tension, which has been analysed for you in

several discussions, can be summarized in the one word

"guilt". Guilt is a concentration of light-force which has

not been utilized in the proper manner; it is a light-

force which one has invoked oneself and to which one

has reacted by behaving in a way which is sometimes

wrong and sometimes very reprehensible. Now that is

what is so marvelous about the nature-of-death, that, in

varying degrees and stages, mankind itself generates a

mighty magnetic potential of guilt from which it is not

possible to escape. In fact, every course of life

generates a magnetic potential of guilt; it is a natural

process to which everyone is subjected; indeed it is the

purpose of dialectical nature to confront you with the

element of guilt.

Guilt is always followed by atonement. This is a na-

tural law, an attempt to carícel out the tension of guilt. It

is an effort to react to the magnetic forces that have

seized your life. In this way your being, your character,

is determined, and your whole attitude of life is very

closely attuned, by you yourself to these magnetic

forces. That is why we differ so much, although

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essentially all these alleged differences can be classified

into groups.

Guilt is followed by atonement. All of us are making

atonement in one way or another, or are trying to res-

pond to the urges of guilt. In accordance with natural

laws, we try to ease the tensions of guilt and through

this, to lose them. Everyone is thus made to choose the

attitude of life through which he can follow his karmic

urge in the most direct and best psychological way, so

that its pressures will be lightened as much as possible.

There are situations and moments in which you feel at

peace, as far as this is possible for you, and you always

try to go back to these moments of peace in order to free

yourself from the magnetic pressure of your guilt.

However, if one struggles against oneself in this way,

there will be less and less moments in which one ex-

periences this temporary feeling of relief. Much of

human behaviour is the result of the natural urge to

redeem guilt, to escape it and so to achieve some sort of

harmony in one's life.

Everyone should reflect profoundly on guilt and

atonement and therefore, everyone, especially priestly

man, should be a psychologist. So you will perhaps

realize that atonement, and the manner of making

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atonement, can increase the tensions of guilt, because

these tensions are not guided in a liberating direction.

Mankind, especially in civilized countries, is heavily

burdened by all these tensions and tries to escape them

in all possible ways, with the help of others. The many

psychologists seek to find the basis of these tensions,

and try to give one some relief. But you will realize

that this can never lead to any solution in a liberating

sense. The psychology of dialectics is an endeavour to

maintain dialectical mankind on a responsible,

dialectical level. Almost the whole of mankind exists in

an experimental stage with regard to the problem of

guilt and atonement. However, a solution to these great

problems will never be found in dialectics. Or, to put it

in the language of the Spiritual School, one will never

find a solution to the enormous build-up of force

brought about by the magnetic powers in our systems.

All magnetic tensions must ultimately lead mankind to

the clear awareness that only one solution exists, that

there is only one psychological prescription for all

these tensions: to enter fully into the clear light of the

Holy Grail.

Now one could ask: what is the most serious sin? You

know that men, groups, peoples and races judge

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this very differently. But it is certain that, in due time, all

these differences will lead to the one, clear under-

standing that the most serious debt one can incur is a sin

committed against the universal light of truth. That is the

ultimate and most profound tension of guilt in which

man can be caught. That is why it is said in the Holy

Language that "sins committed against the Holy Spirit

cannot be forgiven".

In the nature-of-death, mankind goes through every

gradation of guilt and atonement until it reaches a

nadir. In this nadir an almost unbearable struggle

comes about, a terrifying experience known to us, in

our civilized countries, in many aspects.

In one of the ancient writings of Jacob Boehme, there

is a drawing of a pit. It is open at the top and the light

streams into it. But at the bottom of the pit people are

trying to break through the walls. They do not see the

light that is streaming downwards from above. Their

whole attention is directed towards making an opening

in the wall, towards grasping the stones with hands and

feet so that they can scramble up the steep and slippery

walls. But what happens? Probably you have observed

this with an insect. The insect climbs up but at a certain

moment it falls down again and begins

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the journey anew. So it happens with mankind in our

world order, and every man joins in, as long as he does

not know of the mountain of purification. All of us try

to wade through the various circles of hell, back and

forth, back and forth, as long as we dare not walk on

the mountain of purification. And always the result of

this is that we fall back, over and over again, to the

nadir, the tensions of guilt becoming ever greater, and

finally an unbearable burden for man.

Every seeking soul is led to this point. If the burden

of dialectical life becomes too heavy, there remains but

one solution: to climb the mountain of purification.

You should see the ascent of this purifying road as the

only way out. With regard to this way of purification,

we speak in the Spiritual School of the endura, of the

denial of the self. He who dares to begin the life of the

endura will see the cord of love that the Brotherhood

lowers to the bottom of the pit. And now what matters

is whether you, in your confusion, will see this shining

cord of love and whether you will want to be enveloped

by this light-force so that, at a given moment, you will

be lifted out above time and space.

As we discussed in the two previous addresses, the

last will and testament of the bequeathers of the Holy

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Grail must be executed. Only then will there be a ba-

lance between guilt and atonement in man. Only then

will there be any question of remission of debts. Only

then will the phrase from the Lord's Prayer become

reality: "Lord, forgive us our debts".

Many of you know the process — also taking place

in the personality — that leads to this: how the gates

leading from the aural being to the sacral plexus are

locked. However, some of you might ask: "Do we, in

the nature-of-death, necessarily have to go through

all those circles of hell, right to the deepest depth?

Suppose we were to discover, in our wretchedness,

that we had only gone halfway along the road

downwards, or that we had only covered a small part

of it."

Yes, dear friends, that road leading to the deepest

depth would be absolutely necessary if the Gnosis did

not exist, if the Brotherhood of Salvation did not exist.

But the bequeathers of the Holy Grail do not stand

idly waiting above the pit of hell with their light-cords

of love. No, the bequeathers of the Holy Grail come to

meet you; they descend to you. They encompass you

and extend a shining hand to all who possess

sufficient consciousness of the nature of their

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own tensions of guilt. In this way the positive link is

realized. Therefore, in whatever situation you might

find yourself at this moment, you are able to make it

into a nadir immediately. The present moment could

therefore be your nadir, if only you would grasp the

shining cord, if only you would seize the helping hand

that is extended to you. Then it would no longer be of

any consequence if your nadir was deeper or less deep

than that of other brothers and sisters, because you

would have reacted positively and responded to the

touch of the Holy Grail; because you would have

reacted positively to the touch of the universal light.

A concentrated light-force exists in which all

brothers and sisters who belong to the Chain of the

Universal Brotherhood participate. This concentrated

light-force is the Holy Grail and it is the essence of this

Holy Grail that touches you. Throughout the ages, the

Holy Grail has become a mighty concentration of an

intensely liberating force. It is the sidereal blood of the

universal Christ. It is such an intense tension-field that

it cannot be compared with anything else. The Holy

Grail is symbolized by a chalice, and sometimes also by

a heart from which the living blood flows. It is the

capital of the Gnosis that has been amassed over the

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ages. This imperishable treasure is drawn upon so that

you can all be made radiantly happy. This concentra-

tion of intensely liberating force is the treasure of the

Cathars. It is the treasure of the Rosycross, of those

who have been the makers of imperishable gold

throughout the ages. It is the treasure of the Holy

Grail. It is the wealth of the entire Universal Chain of

the Brotherhood.

This wealth, and this concentration of intensely

liberating force, is the treasure which has been put in the

possession of the Young Gnostic Brotherhood, of which

Mr. Van Rijckenborgh is the Grandmaster and the

protector. This imperishable treasure can make you

radiantly happy, if you are able to liberate something of

it within yourself.

So it is put clearly before you: the legacy of the Holy

Grail. We, members of the Inner Degrees, are assem-

bled in this Temple to offer you this inheritance. The

atmosphere of this Temple is very conductive for this.

So, in this moment of your life, make the past into a

radiating present. The inheritance of the Holy Grail has

been offered to you; it is not only symbolized by a Sun

— it is a Sun. It is a powerful light-field, that wants to_

take you up. The mighty light-field has five

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aspects; five signs of the blood, and these five aspects

also take shape in the fivefold Spiritual School already

manifested in matter.

Every chain of twelve can bring to realization the

image of the twelve radiations which you, in your hearts

and heads, carry with you, for above this image, the Sun

of the Gnosis radiates.

Every Young Gnostic Brotherhood, which is accep-

ted in the Universal Chain of the Brotherhood and

admitted into the majestic Solar System, is able to

impart this force of the Sun to everyone who wants to

receive it, to everyone who wants to admit this majestic

force; it is the force which leads to the rebirth of the

soul, to soul-growth, to the manifestation of the golden

sun-garment of the soul, to your priestly work.

On Thursday evening, July 17th, 1969, the magical

work was begun, on your behalf, in the Haarlem Head

Temple, and even then you were touched by the power

of the Holy Grail. Then the open heart of grace was of-

fered to you. Then the Holy Supper was celebrated

with you, in this concentration of liberating force. Then

the positive, liberating element was conveyed to you.

And finally, on Thursday evening, the 17th of July of

the year 1969, standing in the Haarlem Head

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Temple, you received the inheritance of the Holy Grail

on the basis of your promise of faithfulness. You

accepted this inheritance and immediately knew your-

self to have been positively changed. The Spiritual

School of the Golden Rosycross now awaits your truly

priestly deeds, by which may be understood: deeds

carried out in complete knowledge, with due obser-

vance of the holy law of the Spiritual Order, and in

obedience to the holy work. He who has ears to hear,

let him hear what the spirit says to the community!

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VI I

There is always an inviolate material gnostic treasure,

which is kept hidden by the Gnosis itself, for purposes

and reasons which will undoubtedly be explained to

you in due time and at the right psychological

moment.

However, another aspect of the mystery of the ma-

terial treasure of the Cathars is the fact that magical

matters can always be approached in two ways: with the

soul and with the I. If you were to be given the most

wonderful, pure and divine magical method and you

approached it and used it with the I, its effect would

immediately be pitch black, even if the world called it

good.

This matter has yet another aspect, which is that

some people in the world know very well where the

treasure of the Cathars is hidden and of what it con-

sists, but they cannot touch it because it is protected by

radiation.

Well, friends, the material treasure of the Cathars

consists of writings, books, rituals and some holy ob-

jects. It was born out of first-hand knowledge and ap-

plied by its possessors with the Spirit-soul for the libe-

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ration of world and mankind. You will understand that

the possession of this treasure, when it is in the hands of

unauthorized persons, will signify a deadly danger. For

magic, used with and by the I, is always a deadly danger

and very earth-binding.

Now you might ask: "Aren't many pure ancient

gnostic writings already in the hands of unauthorized

persons?" Yes friends, as a result of all kinds of circum-

stances and disasters many treasures have been dis-

covered by unauthorized persons, but the contents of

such treasures are partly useless, because such gnostic

methods are attuned to the time in which they have to be

used and when the cosmic radiations change, they can

no longer be applied in a practical way.

Could this also be said of the treasure of the

Cathars? Yes and no! The cosmic radiations of the

Seven-Spirit describe an orbit through the universe.

They come and go according to a certain rhythm. Now

those who know the laws of this rhythm would be able

to repeat all the old magical systems in due time, and

could even revivify them from the Lemurian age on-

wards, but the effect would be very strange and op-

pressing, because structurally man has changed a lot in

the course of time. We have now entered a time in

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which the same mighty cosmic power has appeared as

was present seven hundred years ago and before that.

Therefore, if at present the treasure of the Cathars

were to be discovered by unauthorized persons,

mankind could be damaged incalculably.

If, for instance, one were to practise the old magic

with the I; if, for instance, one were to practise this

magic in the Spiritual School, then the magnetic Body of

the School, with its various work-fields, would not live

very long and would no longer be able to radiate an

actively liberating power.

But, you might ask, aren't there many alleged Cathar

books in circulation in which rituals and sacraments

are described? These originated from unauthorized

persons who cannot completely know. They often

arose from the brains of the compilers, who made all

kinds of mutilations in the old writings. Also, many

suppositions underlie these books, through which

many dangers are created.

Equipped with this knowledge, the Spiritual Lea-

dership of the Young Gnostic Brotherhood is very vi-

gilant, for it has to contend with many difficulties, and

every subsequent gnostic activity will see itself con-

fronted with the same problems. This is why every

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Brotherhood is and has always been obliged to take

protective measures, not always because of enmity.

but mostly because of the ignorance of friends and

fellow-workers. Indeed, every Brotherhood was obli-

ged to bring its most essential treasure to a place of

safety when it saw the end of its activities

approaching. This vanishing into thin air of the

treasure of the Cathars only applies to those who are

in and of nature. As was already discussed in an

earlier address, for those who are secured in the

Spirit-soul nothing is hidden and neither can anything

be kept hidden. For there is a living proof of the

activity of those who perform their work in the

Universal Chain on diverse levels of life.

Now one might ask: if the treasure of the Cathars is no

longer of any use in dialectics and will not become

useful in the future, unless as a memento or a museum-

piece, because a new imperishable treasure always has to

be prepared, would it not have been better to destroy it

with magical preparatives?

No, dear friends! If you were to ask this question you

would give proof of having no understanding of magic at

all. By entrusting to the earth a pure Cathar inheritance,

with regard to teachings and magic —

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that is, by entrusting pure matter to the matter of death

— a sword has been thrust into the earth-earthly, and

through this, world and mankind are bound to a power

of judgement, to a rending power which will be for the

good of each succeeding Brotherhood of the Gnosis.

Every soul-body, and therefore also the ether-body of

the Spiritual School, projects a light outwards in the

direction of its magnetic poles and then attracts what

its light touches.

From this we can clearly deduce how a light flashes

upwards from the cave of birth, from the earth-earthly,

and how a five-pointed star, a fivefold ether-vesture of

the soul, and thus also the fivefold etherbody of the

Spiritual School, begins to radiate in the heaven of

revelation. Then it will become apparent whether life

has stirred in the cave of birth itself, and whether an

activity of seeking for the divine House of the Father of

the universal life is present there, or whether the

ancient fiery horizontal snake is continuing to manifest

and maintain itself in this cave. If the star radiates like

the Star of Bethlehem, with its apex directed towards

the one universal, divine life, the gnostic wise men of

the preceding Brotherhood will come from the

morning-land of the Spirit, for they

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will have seen the shining star in the magnetic radiation-

field. They will have seen, with joy and thankfulness,

how the true Young Gnostic Brotherhood has

experienced its entrance, passage and ascent into the

field of those who have risen above matter.

In accordance with the imperishable laws of mag-

netic radiation, the Young Gnostic Brotherhood re-

ceives the gold of the Spirit, the frankincense of the

link with the Brotherhood of immortal souls, and the

myrrh of the absolute liberation of the Spirit-soul. It

was on this basis that the Young Gnostic Brotherhood

received the kingship of the Grandmastership. And the

wise man was .... the old Patriarch, who proved his

greatness in humility. And so it came about that the

gnostic feast of the peace of Bethlehem could be cele-

brated in a very conscious manner. Not prematurely,

not untimely, but at the right psychological moment,

the moment of the final test.

On the 5th of May of the year 1957, the imperishable

truth of the Universal Chain of the Brotherhood was

confirmed by the magical consecration of the monument

in Ussat-les-Bains. Then, after a twelve-year period of

trial, on the 1st of June of the year 1969, the Testimony

of the Universal Truth was again confir-

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med, for time and eternity, in the midst of the centre of

initiation at Ussat-les-Bains. We have talked about all

this in our Temples. The flaming, five-pointed star

radiates in the holy ether-field, and the grace of the

Gnosis is present, guided by the fiery, flaming rays

emanating from the Seven-Spirit.

We may now bear witness to you out of such a holy

Body, and we want to make you too conscious of this.

For the Young Gnostic Brotherhood will now need to

come to full, joyful maturity, for God and mankind,

with and through your complete co-operation; your

full co-operation, brothers and sisters of the Inner

Degrees!

We have entered a mighty and extraordinarily im-

portant period; a period of fulfilment. And seeing that

mankind has not prepared itself for this, and has only

been able to bring about chaos, it ought to be clear that

one can state, as an established fact, that the time of

destruction, the time of judgement has come, and that

everything that exists will be shattered in this storm.

These throes will certainly come. But, friends, we will

have understood how especially in these times the great

power of universal Love is able to intervene, and how,

while co-operating with the stream of judgement,

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it will be able to turn a great many things to the good

and save countless people from a certain downfall.

The day of an entirely new beginning has dawned.

A new wave of radiation bursts through the All and

pours forth over this planet. This could mean the des-

truction of this planet, if it were not for the fact that

this wave of radiation does not intend destruction, but

only the fulfilment of the plan of God, which is Love

itself. That is why the Angel of the Seventh Ray calls:

"Wait, until we have sealed the servants of our God

upon their foreheads." You can read this in Revela-

tions 7. Our Grandmaster, Mr. J. van Rijckenborgh

replies to this: "Much good can be done for the world

and mankind through a right, intelligent and under-

standing reaction, for instance, by receiving the in-

fluences radiating towards mankind. This is a benefi-

cial work that can be done by a prepared group, by a

truly Priestly Host."

Let us imagine our preparatory group of the third

work-field together with the Priestly Host to be such a

power-station. Then, through our link with it, the full

power of the Universal Chain of the Brotherhood would

stream into all the organs of the Magnetic Body of the

Spiritual School. If the Spiritual School of the

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Golden Rosycross and its workers were to fall short

because their power was still too weak, the Universal

Chain of the Brotherhood would meet this deficiency.

In this way the mightiest sevenfold radiation-field

would be formed in the present day, and our weakness

would be made perfect in great strength.

Therefore: a vertical stream establishes a link with

various horizontal workings. The cross of Jesus Christ,

the cross of victory. But this is only the beginning! As

was said by Jesus to his disciples: "You shall do

greater things than these." For the idea of the liberation

according to the Spirit-soul will be made to flow into

the magnetic radiation-field of the Young Gnosis and

into everything contained therein; then the pure plan of

God in its rightful order; and finally the pure religion.

In this mighty magnetic field, all lies, all slander and

all betrayal simply will be made impossible and will be

banished. The result cannot be otherwise than a realm

of peace!

May the cross of liberation, the cross of love, serve

to bring about a mighty resurrection of the whole of

mankind. With the hand of action on Galaad, the rock

of Witness, all of us confirm our promise of faithful-

ness, love and readiness for sacrifice to the Young

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Gnostic Brotherhood, the Spiritual School of the

Golden Rosycross, so that the balsam of help and con-

solation will again be established within us for time

and eternity. Then we will not forsake each other any

more, for all eternity.

We pray that this Victory may be bestowed on every

one of us in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and

of the Holy Spirit.

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